Databases

Iowa AEA digital eBook and Audiobook service for 7-12 students (Young Adults). Classics are multi-use while other titles are single checkout.

Rosen Learning Center's Interactive eBooks for grades K - 12. Click on the Teen CyberSmart eBook Collection link.

The NEW Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers—provides middle school and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, standards-aligned, curricular and self-help support. Topics include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy, and more.

We offer searchable online literature, index by author  author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes.

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Britannica School Edition - encyclopedia database. Features text to speech & translations into many languages.  

CultureGrams -focus on daily life and culture, including the history, customs and lifestyles of the world's people.

The leading database and eBook provider for libraries and other institutions — more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases and more than 300,000 eBooks and audiobooks.

Gale eResource offers screened and reliable content from magazines, newspapers, and reference materials.  Ten different resources are designed for age-appropriate access.   

Exploration of the origins, perspectives, and essential questions under debate on over 300 pro/con social issues.  Review thousands of highly targeted articles, primary sources, statistics, websites, and multimedia.

AP Images - Over 7 million primary-source photographs from the 1800's up to a minute ago, over 1.9 million sound bites from the 1920's up to a minute ago, 230,000 maps, charts and timelines, and 2.5 million text news stories from the Associated Press.

Student News Net - This resource provides current news articles - local, national and world - as well as images and interactive learning tools. 

iClipart for schools - A collection of more than 7.8 million royalty-free photos, clipart, fonts, animations, and sounds that can be used in multimedia presentations, Inspiration diagrams, school websites, worksheets, newsletters, posters, signs, and more.

Learn360 - Educational streaming media offering thousands of full length digital videos, video clips, images, audio files, news reels, speeches and a comprehensive library of teaching resources from educational publishers.